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Busta Rhymes Explains The Rap Economics Of "Gimme Some More"

Director Gus Van Sant's updated version of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, "Psycho," opened up this weekend, scaring up $10 million at the box office - but Van Sant isn't the only person honoring the 1960 film.

Hip-hop jester Busta Rhymes samples the "Psycho" theme in his new hit, "Gimme Some More" borrowing a snippet of Bernard Hermann's original score. The song is the first cut off the rapper's new album, "Extinction Level Event," which Busta believes carries a "Greed is Good" message.

MTV News recently caught up with the frenetic Busta in Atlanta, where he was shooting the song's rapid-fire video with director Hype Williams, and he talked about his theory of rap economics.

[article id="1441012"]"'Gimme Some More' is just an overdose of everything you want more of,"[/article] Busta said, [article id="1441012"]"whether it's more sex, more partying, more clothes, more money, more cars, more houses, you know. More peace, more war, whatever.

It's just all of these things that people want. I just felt like making a song that combined all these elements and pretty much presented it in the same time as a 3 minute [video]." [28.8 RealVideo][/article]

Extinction Level Event" arrives in stores this week.

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